Handwriting With Katherine shares activities that can promote hand skill development and be used in the rehabilitation of handwriting development skills.
I am an Occupational Therapist with over 23 years of experience in clinical and school-based practice and the author of "Handwriting Development Assessment and Remediation: A Practice Model for Occupational Therapists."
Sharing an informative article about handwriting research.
https://www.yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2020/12/03/research-on-handwriting/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3R-u74mzXWahBu8kDGU6OTby2-0G5BNuQO7uJQTN5ujYUartCnGCYgJTU_aem_eFHDQW4mR3qR-mlFHRdpSQ
Here is some research on handwriting for Occupational Therapists, teachers, and other professionals on why students still need traditional handwriting practice.
Have you visited my publisher’s Resource Page lately? There are some new Mother’s Day printouts plus a bunch of other neat stuff!
Explore our free printables! Writing readiness exercises, coloring pages, mazes, tracing, word scrambles, holiday activities, and more.
April is National Card and Letter Writing Month! Yay! And my publisher is sharing some fun free downloads to help your students celebrate! Enjoy!
April is National Card & Letter Writing Month! To help you celebrate, we have an April Activity & Printables Calendar with lots of card and letter writing ideas and a “Write & Mail a Letter” activity pack.
Kids will love learning with the Easter Fine Motor Pattern Block Mats while they work on building literacy skills, fine motor skills and have a LOT of fun! --->> https://lifeovercsstore.com/collections/all-products/products/fine-motor-mats-for-easter-pattern-blocks?ref=r89ff2623n (affiliate)
The above photo shows a completed “Rail road track with red vertical lines placed between long horizontal yellow lines. The video below demonstrates a client enjoying removing the strips to p…
28 Creative Ideas to explore the Easter Story.
From crafts & free printables, to recipes, games & outdoor activities, there's something for all ages to explore this Holy Week.
https://www.sunhatsandwellieboots.com/2024/03/28-creative-ideas-to-explore-easter.html
Simple Gift Baskets for Ramadan and Eid! Grab the printable today https://www.redtedart.com/printable-eid-gift-baskets/
Free Easter printables from my publisher! Grab them on their site and take a moment to look through their handwriting resources!
Have a happy day!
Have some Easter fun in your classroom with these free printables! Activities include manuscript and cursive tracing, coloring, a maze, and a matching activity.
Free st. Paddy’s Day Printables from my publisher! Enjoy!
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in your classroom with these fun free printables. Tracing, mazes, coloring, matching, and math activities!
Hi, there, everyone! I have a favor to ask. A multi-age classroom in one of our elementary schools is reaching out to people in other states asking them to send them cards, letters, or postcards for Valentine’s Day, to reach their classroom by February 14. They are learning about different states and will plot the cards they receive on a map.
I thought this would be a great handwriting project for your students! Just a short note with a handmade card would brighten up their classroom! And your students can spread their handwritten joy to some new friends. Who knows! Maybe they will become pen pals?🤗🧡
Do you think you’d have a moment to do this? They’re around 1st-3rd grade age. I want to contribute to their project; but with me being in TX, there’s not much point in my sending one🤗. If you can, their address is:
Attn: Multiage
Dunbar Primary School
1807 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Lufkin, TX 75904
Thx🧡
January 23 is National Handwriting Day! Yay! And my publisher is sharing some free printable activities to share with your children! Enjoy!
National Handwriting Day is January 23. Try these fun activities to celebrate the importance of handwriting with your students!
Are you looking for some holiday printables for the little ones? My publisher is sharing a few now. They also have other activities that you just might be interested in, too🤗. Search through their Resource Center and pick out some fun learning opportunities! All free!!
Celebrate Christmas with these fun free printables! Includes coloring pages, a letter to Santa, a tree-decorating activity, and present drawing activity.
It all ends on DECEMBER 3!
Hi, all! The publisher’s holiday sale on the text version of my book ends December 3! A half-price sale is too good to miss. At that price, it’s two-for-one if you want to buy a copy for a friend or your school! And the ebook is available at that same price every day.
https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation
As always, I hope it helps you in your work and thank you for supporting mine. 🧡
This comprehensive guide provides a consistent tool for occupational therapists to assess handwriting development skills and develop a remediation plan. Explore more and grab your copy today!
Black Friday Sale at my publisher starts TODAY! And my book is on sale! Grab it at this great price while you can!
As always, thank you for your support of my work🧡
This comprehensive guide provides a consistent tool for occupational therapists to assess handwriting development skills and develop a remediation plan. Explore more and grab your copy today!
Some free thanksgiving printables! I wish they’d come in sooner but you can share them with your family and friends 🤗. Enjoy!
Try these fun Thanksgiving activities with your students! Includes two coloring pages and two secret code activities.
Oh, boy! These fine motor activities from my publisher are Boooo-tastic!”🎃. My favorite thing about them is that each activity links you to some of my favorite fine motor bloggers!
And there’s a link for free Halloween Printables at the end of the blog! Yay! Enjoy !
With Halloween right around the corner, we thought we’d round up some fun Halloween activities that help build fine motor skills.
New fall printables from my publisher - free! Enjoy!
Celebrate the changing seasons with our fun fall printables!
Hello and Happy Back To School Time! Once again, my publisher is sharing some free printables for our little ones! A great ice breaker for the first few weeks of school. Enjoy!
Welcome your students back to school with these fun printables! This set includes an "all about me" questionnaire to help you get to know your students, two acrostic poems, four coloring pages, and summer memories draw and write templates.
Are looking for some easy and educational summer handwriting skill activities to share with parents? Universal Publishing is sharing some neat ones on their site. They don’t require any special supplies and can be completed anywhere - the dentist’s or doctor’s waiting room, at a restaurant, in the car - anywhere! Take a look and feel free to share!
There are lots of simple ways to help your kids build writing readiness skills and practice writing at home. Try these quick activities to get your kids writing, thinking, and learning!
Free Fourth of July Printables from my publisher 🤗 Enjoy!
https://upub.net/blog/info/4th-july-printables/?redirect_mongo_id=649c30b4f6ed7582a17ab72d&utm_source=Springbot&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=649c30b4f6ed7582a17ab72c.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with these free printable activities! Includes a word find puzzle, coloring page, tracing and writing activities, and a draw and write page.
I love this activity. Now that school is out, let’s have our handwriters help with everyday activities! You can also make lists for packing for a trip or going on a picnic to the park. Tons of fun handwriting activities to grow their skills this summer. Enjoy!
Students create shopping lists and practice writing food words with these free printables! Includes traceable food words in manuscript and cursive, a food word search, and a sample shopping list.
Free Kindness Printables from my publisher! Enjoy!
These kindness activities help students explore the importance of being kind and helping others. Bonus: Age-appropriate writing lines reinforce good handwriting!
Mother’s Day FREE Printables from my publisher! Enjoy!
These Mother’s Day activities let kids share what they love most about their moms AND show off their handwriting!
It’s National Card and Letter Writing Month! And my publisher has some free activities to share that fit in nicely with this perfect handwriting event! Enjoy!
April is National Card & Letter Writing Month! To help you celebrate, we have an April Activity & Printables Calendar with lots of card and letter writing ideas and a “Write & Mail a Letter” activity pack.
Free Easter Printables from my publisher!
Have some Easter fun in your classroom with these free printables! Activities include manuscript and cursive tracing, coloring, a maze, and a matching activity.
Free Valentine’s Day Printables from my publisher 🤗💕
Download our free Valentine's Day printables! Kids can color, trace, write, match, and decorate.
Hi, there! Sharing some handwriting history and projects from my publisher!! Enjoyed 🤗
January 23 is National Handwriting Day! Try these fun activities to help you celebrate with your students.
Hello, everyone. It is with mixed emotions that I share today's news. First, let me say with all my heart that I have enjoyed having the honor and privilege of working with children and their parents, as well as teachers and colleagues, toward the mastery of a child's handwriting development skills. These past years have both educated and humbled me as I worked closely with families in their search for answers for their children's handwriting needs. I've developed close friendships among those families as well as with colleagues with whom I've shared ideas and experiences. My heartfelt thanks go out to them and to all of you who have been so generous in your support of my work. Without all of you, each and every one of you, there would not be a Handwriting With Katherine.
Today I have made the very difficult decision to discontinue my Handwriting With Katherine website and the Handwriting is Fun! blog. It was one of the more difficult decisions I've had to make in a long time. The addresses will be available for about 24 more hours. But after that, you will always find me here! And I look forward to more time spent sharing ideas with you!
I have many goals outside of occupational therapy that are just screaming to be met! And I look forward to achieving them with gusto!
Thank you again for all of your support. I wish you all the best success in all of your career goals.
Some free Printables from my publisher to add some holiday fun to handwriting development - which I think is fun already 🤗. Enjoy!
Celebrate Christmas with these fun free printables! Includes coloring pages, a letter to Santa, a tree-decorating activity, and present drawing activity.
Sale ends today!
This comprehensive guide provides a consistent tool for occupational therapists to assess handwriting development skills and develop a remediation plan. Explore more and grab your copy today!
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Time is running out on this amazing sale on my book! I’ve just spoken with the publishers and they’re not planning another sale like this for some time! The response this month has been spectacular and I am so honored that so many of you have purchased my work. If you are still considering it, please be sure to contact me if you have any questions. You can order in 3 ways: 1. You can use this link to purchase from the publisher’s site: https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation 2. You can head over to my website and order from there: https://handwritingwithkatherine.com/about-the-book 3. Or, if you need the book shipped outside of the continental US, you can email the publisher at [email protected] for shipping costs. As always, I appreciate your reading, sharing, and using the strategies I share here - both mine and those of others.
As we approach the fifth day of my publisher’s AOTA Conference Sale on my book, I’d like to share an excerpt from Chapter 4: A Practice Model for Handwriting Performance: “Client-centered therapy implies that the individual for whom the services are designed will actively and willingly participate in the rehabilitation process. This includes both a behavioral and a motivational component on the client’s part (Collmer, 2015). The client-centered performance context provides the framework for understanding, evaluating, and interpreting the individual’s occupational performance. The occupational performance perspective views the performance of a task as an interaction between the individual and the environment versus the environment being a separate context from the individual. Therefore, a client-centered performance context considers an individual’s motivational characteristics, roles, and capacities to be just as critical as the task and features of the environment when considering therapeutic interventions. These elements provide a framework to guide our understanding of why and how an individual performs the task the way he does and to assist us in determining the aspects of task performance that limit his success.... An occupational therapy practice that focuses on a client-centered model requires a system of relationships in order to be successful. It depends on a clear understanding and acceptance of the underlying behavioral and motivational concepts of the model and the ability to foster a growth mindset in the therapeutic environment.... The success of client-centered therapy is based on a growth mindset in which the child believes he has the ability to increase his skills. A growth mindset assists in the development of a strong client-therapist relationship (Collmer, 2016, p. 40.”
An excerpt from Chapter 13, “Posture, Seating, and Movement: Links to Learning:” “A visual sweep of the classroom scene will uncover as many seated body postures as there are students. For the most part, an upright position will not be the one most utilized. Slouching, leaning forward, legs curled up on the chair seat, and resting heads on the desk, arm, or hand will most likely be the seated positions that will be observed. For some students, the posture they present is the one that works best for them to adapt to weak muscles or diminished visual skills, al- lowing them to save their energy for the task at hand and to avoid spending it to keep their body upright or their eyes positioned correctly. For others, the postur- al positions they’ve adopted may be the product of an inadequate seating arrangement, most likely exposure to inappropriately sized chairs and desk tops beginning in preschool and continuing into their present class- room. However, for some children, their preferred seating postures could represent their natural “urge for movement” (Breithecker, n.d., p. 6) and their attempt to “sustain [their] physical and mental resources” as they concentrate on a task (Breithecker, n.d., p. 4). Of course, these postural behaviors can also indicate the simple need for sleep. Fatigue can also result in in- appropriate posture. All of these postural influences are legitimate and valid reasons for examination and assessment of the child’s postural efficiency during the completion of both gross and fine motor tasks (Collmer, 2016, p. 138).”
Tomorrow is the big day! Universal Publishing’s AOTA Conference Sale on my book begins and will run until April 7. Here’s a sneak preview of the Table of Contents and the price! You can order on my website or on the link provided in my FB offer on this page...but not until tomorrow!
THERE’S A SALE COMING! Universal Publishing has announced an AOTA Conference Sale from April 1-7 on my book! Again this year, they will be offering it to all of my wonderful readers at the sale price of $39.95! Look for my Facebook Offer and don’t miss out on this great deal! You can order via my website or at the link in the next paragraph. For purchasers out of the continental US, please email the publisher at [email protected] for shipping costs. As always, if you have any questions or problems, please feel free to message me! If you are interested in the Table of Contents, go on over to my publisher’s site at https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation and swipe the cover of my book to the left to view it!
I’m so excited to be able to offer my readers such an amazing price on my book...thanks to my publishers, Universal Publishing! BUT offer only lasts until December 5! You can order it at this link: https://upub.net/handwriting-development-assessment-and-remediation Remember, for orders outside the continental US, please contact the publisher through their email [email protected] for shipping costs.
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I am an Occupational Therapist with over 20 years of experience offering pediatric services, with my primary focus on the assessment and remediation of children's handwriting skills. My book, “Handwriting Development Assessment and Remediation: A Practice Model for Occupational Therapists,” is offered as a primary resource for pediatric occupational therapists. In addition, I have presented workshops to peers, OT students, and teachers on handwriting development, offered occupational therapy professional development training workshops, worked with peers on a consultation basis, and continued to offer individual student handwriting development services on a case-by-case basis. The current Handwriting With Katherine mission is to advance the OT profession's proficiency and involvement in the provision of handwriting services in an effort to offer every child the opportunity for educational success.
